Monday, December 10, 2012

Greenwald: "Don't Cheer While Your Country Constantly Kills - And Then Expect To Be Liked"

Whatever else one wants to say, the US is a country that, for more than a decade, has loudly and continuously declared itself to be a "nation at war". It's not "at war" in any one county, but in many countries around the globe.

It spent years imprisoning even Muslim journalists with no charges. And then there's that little fact about how, less than a decade ago, it created a worldwide torture regime and then launched an aggressive war that destroyed a nation of 26 million people, one that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings. ...

If you want your country to rule the world as an aggressive and militaristic empire, then accept the inevitable consequence of that: that there will be huge numbers of people in the world who resent and even hate your country for that behavior. Don't cheer while your country constantly kills, invades, occupies, and dominates the internal affairs of countless other nations - and then expect to be liked.

1 comment:

Of course I agree with Greenwald. But does he think most Americans know that their country constantly kills? They do not. And when they do think about the killing, they are surrounded by justification. Mostly it just happens on some other planet called The Rest of the World.

USians have always been shocked and appalled that everyone in the world does not like them. It comes with being American, as I'm sure Glenn Greenwald knows.